Myanmar

News Hour: Myanmar is targeting 7 million tourist arrivals in 2020, calling for working with a sense of responsibility and accountability in the development of tourism sector, official media reported on Tuesday. Vice President U Henry...

News Hour: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Barack Obama on Wednesday in her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year’s election, capping a decades-long...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Myanmar today signed agreements for a $60 million loan and $4 million grant to provide Mandalay—the country’s second largest city—with a sustainable, modern wastewater and...

News Hour: Hundreds of Buddhist hardliners booed former UN chief Kofi Annan as he arrived in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state on Tuesday to probe religious conflict that has displaced tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, reports...

News Hour: Delegates from one of Myanmar’s most heavily armed ethnic groups have stormed out of peace talks aimed at ushering in a new era of peace in the country, reports Aljazeera. Representatives of the powerful,...

News Hour: Hundreds of representatives of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities have gathered in the country’s capital for peace talks with the government aimed at ending decades of separatist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives, reports Aljazeera....

News Hour: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi faces what could be the toughest test of her leadership yet when she opens a major ethnic peace conference on Wednesday aimed at ending wars that have blighted the...

News Hour: Former UN chief Kofi Annan will advise Myanmar’s new government on resolving conflicts in Rakhine, a region divided on religious grounds and home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya, it was announced on Wednesday, reports...

News Hour: Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will pay an official visit to China from August 17 to 21 at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced on...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Amara Bank (UAB) signed today a trade finance agreement to provide guarantees of up to $4 million a year to support trade in Myanmar. UAB is the...